Zombie film shoot mistaken for brutal axe attack

Police were called after a woman saw three lads with an axe stood over the bloodied body of another boy

Cops rushed to the scene of a suspected axe attack - only to find four teenagers making a zombie film.

Police converged on Prince of Wales Mansions in Harrogate, Yorkshire at about 3.20pm on Friday after a woman called 999, reporting three boys with an axe were stood over another boy who was covered in blood.

But it turned out the youths were filming a scene - using fake blood.

North Yorkshire Police said after officers spoke to the teenagers, "the incident was stood down".

A force spokesman said the boys "had been making a zombie film and they'd been outside".

He said they had explained that "one of them had got red all over him [and was] covered in fake blood."